A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETTThe authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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